Twigs Way

The Wartime Garden: Digging for Victory

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'This War is a Food War.' In 1941 Lord Woolton, Minister for Food, was determined that the Garden Front would save England: 'Dig for Victory' was the slogan, digging for dinner the reality. With food imports dwindling the number of allotments grew, millions opted to 'Spend an Hour with a Hoe' instead of an hour in a queue, and the upper classes turned lawns, tennis courts and stately gardens over to agriculture. The national diet was transformed, with swedes grown in the place of oranges and hapless children sucking on carrot lollies; evacuees grew their own meals and bomb sites sprouted allotments. Vegetables ruled the airwaves with Mr Middl… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-78442-008-6
EAN: 9781784420086
Produktnummer: 17079216
Verlag: Shire Pubn
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Seitenangabe: 64 S.
Masse: H22.3 cm x B15.1 cm x D0.2 cm 150 g
Gewicht: 150

Über den Autor

Twigs Way is a garden historian, writer and lecturer with a particular interest in the gardens of the working and middle classes. Twigs is fascinated by by the way in which even the smallest of plots will reflect the impact of social and political change and explores this through her books and media appearances including previous work on wartime gardens.